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Jun 13, 2006
06/06
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Collaboration between Ilios and Jason Kahn dates back to the 2002 Elektrograph festival, where they first performed together. Since then they've toured Switzerland in 2004 for the Domizil vs. Antifrost CD project and performed at the 2005 Ertz Festival in Spain. "Astra" translates to "stars" in Greek; as does "Steloj," the title of their first CD, in Esperanto. ILIOS has released numerous solo works in different formats and performed extensively in Europe, Japan...
Topic: microsound
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Aug 20, 2006
08/06
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various artists
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"Con-vpilation" is Conv's thirty-third virtual release since going online in February 2004, and it is a milestone in the netlabel’s history for several reasons. As the title implies, this is Conv’s first compilation album. In being a compilation, it features an impressive roster of eleven international artists, representing both genders, each of whom has enriched the contemporary world of electronic/electro-acoustic/experimental/avant-garde music in her/his own distinct way. Also...
Topic: electroacoustic and beyond
Source: www.con-v.org
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Apr 18, 2004
04/04
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Scott Taylor
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Conv is proud to present "Winter Sunday", a five track ep written and produced by Scott Taylor (Touch, Phonography, Sijis). Based on field recordings made in Barcelona (around the old cathedral), Paris (Notre Damme cathedral organ) and London, this work should be considered secular music in its basis and intent. These elements were elaborated and trasformed in organics compositions where each track developes a sound environment. Ambient, isolationism... quite space; on this recording...
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Topics: Ambient, Isolationism, phonography
Source: www.con-v.org
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Feb 25, 2005
02/05
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Meri von Kleinsmid
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Seattle based artist Meri von Kleinsmid bring us this short, but intense e.p., recorded during the spring of the last year. Three tracks plus a remix; a brief release offered to all our con-v visitors as a little "thank you". : ) Trained on clasical music, she is working in electroacoustic pieces since her earlier teenagehood ("have a Spinach salad..." 1986). She has collaborated with sound artist Alex Keller on Cd "Searching for the inverse square" among other...
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Topic: Experimental
Source: www.con-v.org
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Jan 2, 2005
01/05
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Julie Rousse
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In these pieces by Julie Rousse the movement remains suspended between the sole coordinates of the anticipated momentary release predetermined by the advent of the inevitable breakdown of the system/machine. The sounds she produces, evoke a perpetual loosening of fixed coordinates, an incessant structural slippage under the constraints of enduring narrative duress. Under that inhumane narrative which motivates, melds and constrains every element of the societal structure the only interest is...
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Topic: Electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
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Jan 11, 2007
01/07
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sascha neudeck
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This new sound output [seroton] of sascha neudeck (biochemist and musician, based in vienna) is to carry out a test by the idea of different drone-interpretations. It is more a collection of different quotations in doing with such these topics. The result is quite different to his previous work, which was more noise- and random-oriented. This new section is quite a try to arrange such these things - from totally abstract elements to poetic narrative parts. Different ideas come out from an...
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Topic: microsound
Source: www.con-v.org
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Dec 17, 2007
12/07
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Cory Allen
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When composing the present work, Observing a Warmth, I chose my ontological explorative measuring tool to be the vibrational frequencies of the human Chakra system. Each piece utilizes a devised frequential pattern with the intention of resonating a single Chakra and then moving onward to another, or resonating multiple Chakras simultaneously, for which I coined the term spinning wheel chord. The objective of this experiment was to determine if embedding certain frequency groups in music could...
Topic: electroacoustic
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Jun 26, 2004
06/04
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Pablo Reche
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Reche is currently one of the best argentinian avant-garde sound artists. He has played live in many countries and events (Sónar festival 2000, etc) and his music has been released on labels all around the world. His work has been defined as a good example of noise, isolationism and post-industrial sound. Close to white noise, Reche builds structurated ambiences whole of distorted sounds, filtered textures and manipulated stuff taken from field recordings, cd's and vinyls. Pablo Reche works...
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Topics: Noise, Isolationism
Source: www.con-v.org
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Mar 28, 2005
03/05
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thomas ekelund
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The title of Thomas Ekelund's outing on Con-v ( his first online release in four years! ) is just a possible frame of reference for what sounds like an (albeit wholly deconstructed) guitar which initiates the work. (Is there a more archetypical songsters instrument than the guitar imaginable?) But what is heard is not another one of THOSE songs: this dirge of rusty, acidic spilling out of dead words sounds like fate itself (sonically personified as a primordial entity out of Lovecraft's...
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Topic: minimalism / drone
Source: www.con-v.org
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Oct 6, 2008
10/08
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stephen fiehn & steven hess
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WORK stephen fiehn - guitar/electronics steven hess - drums/vibraphone/electronics recorded by salvatore dellaria @ 87 west march 2007, chicago, il. (c)WORKmusic (fiehn/hess) work.contactus@gmail.com
Topic: microsound
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Jan 28, 2006
01/06
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kevin m. krebs
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brand new release by this well-known Canadian sound artist. 'Absolutely Ignorant' was inspired by an excerpt from the Venerable Bede's work " Ecclesiastical History of the English People" which focuses on the ultimate fallibility of human knowledge concerning the fundamental questions that confront us. As Red as Rubies (2004) A reconstructed and extended excerpt of an as yet unreleased CD which explores sonifications around the ideas of alchemy. The fundamental concept of alchemy is...
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Topic: electroacoustic improvisation
Source: www.con-v.org
4,898
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Feb 13, 2005
02/05
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fabrice planquette
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French artist Fabrice Planquette works on electronic and electro-acoustic music since 1995. His name is well-known in the netlabels scene because of his releases on Entity (as Element Act, Acta and FP), Enourghrecords and others, a multitalented artist for who there's hardly any line of sound-based work that hasn't been covered. Musique pour Dans la solitude des champs du coton is a work composed originally in 2003 for the company of theater La Soufflerie, on a text by Bernard-Marie Koltès ....
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Topics: Ambient, Electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
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Nov 11, 2005
11/05
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christian toonk
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The basic idea for "unison" is the phenomenon of binaural tones. When the distance between congruence frequencies is changed, pulsations occur. Here, Dutch artist Christian Toonk (vinculated to the Utrecht based collective Umatic among others projects) uses a self build instrument based on sinewave oscillators and feedback loops. The output is rewired to the input and provides a somewhat unpredictable datastream, by means of creating an opponent to interact to as in collaboration....
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Topic: microsound
Source: www.con-v.org
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Jul 24, 2006
07/06
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albert casais
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It seems as though there isn't much room left for dance music in the current avant-obsessed and cut-throat world of experimental electronic music, but New Jersey resident Albert Casais is keeping the party going with his funk-infused Omnid project. Using an array of cutting edge software and his trusty Nord Lead, Casais creates a lyrical, but cold and robotic journey through abstraction, culminating in the slippery rhythms of 'milikk'--chunked trash beats cemented by a dizzying lead, endlessly...
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Topic: microsound
Source: www.con-v.org
4,452
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Sep 5, 2004
09/04
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Henrik Olsson, Anders Dahl
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Media artist Anders Dahl (with releases on Komplott and Underhund) and percussion improviser Henrik Olsson (of Sheriff -Häpna- and Gul 3) create out of sober means (no mystery here: just see the track titles) a sound-world richly evocative of a buddhist temple ritual for the digital age - or, leading us even further abroad, into as yet unmarked and apocryphal ethnological territories as non-descript as the environmental sounds which constitute the backdrop to these elusive goings-on. Or is...
Topics: Chamber Music, Electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
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Dec 30, 2010
12/10
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v.a.
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vol.1: 01 ANTANAS JASENKA - Wall 02 DIISSC ORCHESTRA - 4'33" by John Cage 03 ORLANDAS NARUŠIS - 5-4 04 EGIDIJA MEDEKŠAITE - C# 05 DARIUS CIUTA – Ke vol.2: 01 BETONINIAI TRIUŠIAI - Introdukuoti Medžiai 02 TWENTYTWENTYONE - 'floating hierarchies' by Herbert Brun 03 GINTAS K - Nieko Toks Letas Git 04 SKARDAS - Concert is over 05 LYS - Matyta 06 AUDIO Z - kur aš esu (where am i) 07 ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE - Marble your lungs with silence 08 R&R ELECTRONICS - There is no Love...
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Topic: electroacoustic, avant-garde
3,279
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Mar 22, 2004
03/04
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Elín Anna Steinarsdóttir
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"One winter's night, ... " is the second release of Elín Anna Steinarsdóttir, from Reykjavik (Iceland). A long piece (22 minutes) that works as a perfect sequel of her first album released on Entity ("Impressions"). In this work, Elín deepens all the elements that are latent in her previous production: field recordings, found sounds, noise waves, electronic textures. The use of the dramatisation and her conceptual sense allows her to build bridges between different...
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Topic: Electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
3,175
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Aug 13, 2005
08/05
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Brian Lavelle
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_________________ The Houses of the Russians was composed during 2004 entirely of locally recorded field recordings manipulated using Max/MSP on a PowerBook G4. Each of the pieces is a live improvisation, without overdubs or further post-recording sound processing. Like the eponymous dwellings, the six segments of this work are deliberately unnatural and out of place; they exist as nebulous entities, storm clouds born of confusion - 'Their houses are supposed to be unlucky, and no one goes near...
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Topic: microsound
Source: www.con-v.org
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May 23, 2004
05/04
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Kenneth Kirschner
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NYC artist Kenneth Kirschner is well known by all of you because of his releases on 12k label and Subrosa (with Taylor Deupree). Again, Conv is proud to present this great album by one of our favourite artists from the last years: " January 2, 1999 et al. is a collection of three of my compositions, including two pieces focused on the intersection of piano and electronics, and one based on purely digital sound design. January 2, 1999 uses a sampler to refract simple piano motifs into more...
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Source: www.kennethkirschner.com
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Mar 24, 2009
03/09
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gintas k & gys
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In 2006, me and GyS talked about collaboration, in which we could use each otherâs material. We exchanged the raw files. I completed my part, composed from his sounds (mostly guitar sound). In the middle of GySâ work his computer crashed and all his work was lost. Only my part left, and it is on this ep. On track When the drummer is smoking I imagine BAUHAUS or COIL (If they had one) drummer taking a rest in the middle of the concert. Smoking a cigarette with one hand, while playing on Hi-hat...
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Topic: electronic
2,937
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Aug 18, 2004
08/04
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johan gustavsson
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A new release by Johan Gustavsson (Tsukimono, Scraps on Tape, Broken Concrete), this time appearing again under the moniker of Mnoki. "trees in movement" is his second release under this name, a work inspired by the paints of the vienan artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Johan's different aliases appear as different strategies for (re-)telling the digital narrative. For Mnoki, this narrative progresses in a non-linear way: at the edge of time a dam is put up to thwart the flow in favor...
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Topic: Lowercase
Source: www.con-v.org
2,903
2.9K
Jun 14, 2009
06/09
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Christopher McFall & Ben Fleury-Steiner
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my work is a process of combining field recordings made on a dreary Sunday morning in the poorest sections of inner city Wilmington, Delaware--essentially these recordings were of empty spaces of wind moving through tight graffiti covered alley ways and rows of government housing located on the outer fringe of the city--the recordings primarily consist of a sudden clatter of debris, strange chiming noises but mostly a stretch of ghostly silences. I combined these recordings with processed...
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Topic: electroacoustic
2,889
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Apr 24, 2010
04/10
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BPM75 www.bpm75.net Collective of musicians and composers living in Paris. Acousmatic art and contemporary music. Open to multidisciplinary activities and non conventional concerts. Our objectif : a research of news way to involve public and artistes. Our principe : generate a deeply relations betwen body, thoughts and spirit from sounds activities. Our dogma : Art is not an discipline, is a way to percept and to enlarged our conscience of reality. Oliver Rappoport - Identités The title...
Topic: acousmatic
2,864
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May 31, 2007
05/07
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Jim Brouwer, Paul Emery, Joe Gilmore, Tom Knapp, Ed Martin and Alex Peverett
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Jim Brouwer, Paul Emery, Joe Gilmore, Tom Knapp, Ed Martin and Alex Peverett. 25 May 2002, The Crypt, Leeds Town Hall. Poulenc is a live interpretation of Francis Poulenc's religious choral and organ work Litanies à la Vierge Noir (1936). The original work consists of a series of prayers to Mary and was composed after the composer's pilgrimage to the Marian shrine of Rocamadour which contains a wooden Black Madonna. Black Madonnas are thought to be related to pre-Christian Earth Goddess...
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Topic: electroacoustic - microsound
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'I was in a bush, when I heard lot of sounds (a dog, some sheeps and goats and donkeys, and lot of bells). I went in the direction of the sounds and suddenly the dog started bark. I was near him and in few minutes we was friends. After an hour the shepherd arrived, because an imminent storm; he was a bit upset because of the dog was not aggressive with me. The shepherd, to shelter the sheeps, grew up the fence, but the sheeps was used to the old small fence. Only the goats and the donkeys went...
Topic: phonography
Source: www.con-v.org
2,789
2.8K
Sep 16, 2005
09/05
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Anla Courtis, Pablo Reche
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"Transistores de aire" is the first collaborative release between two of the best Argentinean experimental artists nowaddays: Anla Courtis (guitarrist of the essential, well-known experimental band Reynols) and Pablo Reche, a drone/noise master, with apparences in festivals as Mutek (2005) and Sonar (2000). Recorded during the summer of 2005 in Buenos Aires, "transistores de aire" is a long, subtle, obscure and minimal drone, a piece without any kind of condiments, envelopes...
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Topic: drone
Source: www.con-v.org
2,751
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Oct 12, 2004
10/04
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tobias kazumichi grime
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Kazumichi Grime's latest outings sound as uploads from an ab-original databank, from something like a hard disk made of organic matter. An undefinable sense of ancienity exudes from within these soundworks. By whichever means of digital chemistry these are derived; to whatever strains the pre-digitalised material which are the building bricks of these pieces were exposed: the resultant sounds reappear like aural specimens dug up by a sonic paleontologist bent on uncovering the primal...
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Topic: lowercase
Source: www.con-v.org
2,381
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Jun 7, 2005
06/05
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jeff surak
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Veteran and well-known Washington DC based experimental artist Violet (Jeff Surak) presents on con-v this long track, his latest work; "okraina" is a nocturnal piece, a trip to the end of night. " Okraina was constructed from field recordings made in December 2003 while on tour in Russia and Ukraine. Gas heated kitchen pipes, men sleeping in a train compartment, passing trains, light bulbs, soviet refrigerators, train toilets are the sources. The sounds where minimally mixed and...
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Topics: Field Recordings, Electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
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Jul 29, 2008
07/08
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jason kahn
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“Timelines_NY” is a graphical score for five musicians composed for a concert in New York. Like the first version of this work, simply entitled “Timelines” (released in 2005 on Cut as CD), “Timelines_NY” was composed with this group of musicians in mind. These graphical works of mine are therefore not interchangeable: they are conceived within the context of the particular instrumentation and, even more importantly, for the personalities of the original participating musicians. In...
Topic: electroacoustic
2,327
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Nov 11, 2007
11/07
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jeff gburek
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essential mythological of southwestern gold dust etheric cloud surrounding city of sticks ecological disaster of nuclear collateral when distant panners strike a fool rush these are the days of crumbling guns and lungs all along these gorge boulders black and bald footsteps half hoofed gasp in the sun water the day long blood of the mountain look at how she run force of kant and how down from the heavenly throne waters cut dry stone gifts of gods leak through surfaces calling sound echo of...
Topic: field recordings
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K. M. Krebs delivers five solid compositions of electroacoustic/ambient artistry with "The Blue Concubine". A mark of his signature style, Krebs melds and juxtaposes organic sounds with electronic sounds to build a highly listenable album of deep electro-organic ambiance. Applying his own unique take on contemporary musique concrète, manipulations of concrete sounds and abstract electronics are woven into a collection of richly textured works full of intensity and emotion. This is an...
Topic: electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
2,278
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Jul 11, 2004
07/04
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Somniscope
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Conv introduces a new section dedicated to release experimental audiovisuals works. Somniscope is a geographically dislocated collaboration of Liam Frankland from Suffolk, England and Dave Fyans of Perth, Scotland. Following their recent exhibition at Perth Festival of Arts 2004, the duo give to us "Treasured Seconds", a series of six, short episodes focused from their conjoined point of view, exploring the world about them through the means of psychogeography, stills, animation and...
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Source: www.con-v.org
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May 22, 2005
05/05
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thanos chrysakis
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A heavenly flux; a waltz of the stars; a cosmic birdsong instantly silenced when intruded upon. Nonetheless, a probe has been secretly nested within the spheres of heaven, registering upon their resumption the movements of these electrostatic entities. Their song, strands unraveling in the weavings of time  each strand becoming, graciously, a wormhole, an inscape into the self. Thanatos, death, is stripped of its sting by this redeeming audition of the mantric self-expression laid bare in the...
Topic: lowercase
Source: www.con-v.org
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Mar 6, 2004
03/04
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mark allan
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T.a.f. series; an exploration of harmonies thru a series of generative algorithms derived from traditional chinese/japanese music. A small collection of music performed and created 100% with the puredata language. T.a.f. is an exquisite experiment; six subtle, slowly evolving lo-fi ambient pieces. The best of u.k. ambient tradition (Eno, Aphex) meets Basinski. Mark Allan is 50% of Beatwife.
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Topics: Lo-Fi, Ambient
Source: www.con-v.org
1,907
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Feb 18, 2004
02/04
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federico monti
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Federico Monti is well known in the netlabels world because of his releases on Fukkgod or Surfaces also for managing his own label (discosnoise). "Brujula" is his new album and the first release of Conv netlabel. This work follows the aesthetics of lowercase and microsound, using diverse sound applications and techniques for create a balance between extreme frequencies, tonal textures and clean glitches, sometimes hidden just beneath the surface...ending up in a sonic pleasure...
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Topic: Microsound
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brand new album by Spanish pioneer Javier Hernando. The music that creates a transfuture (distant) borns from the heart of the abyss of the ultraforgotten. (María Zambrano) These words included in the sleeve suggests the spirit of this CD recorded between 2002 and 2004, also the influence of the loss and absence of love ones and scenary then is in the four austere fragile poemodulations, the ripple of a broken remembrance in a medium of fragile quite life.
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Topic: microsound
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Though these numbers do not represent the average age of this quartet‘s members, they actually refer to the certain transitional period from what we know as 20th century, with its modernistic (in the neutral sense of this word) outlook, to what is happening right now, as well as what may happen tomorrow. Performance of this ensemble could be called concert as exhibition, or a retrospect of graphic musical notation extended with the graphical materials of non-musical origin, that are read as...
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Topic: computer music / contemporary
Source: www.con-v.org
1,785
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May 26, 2008
05/08
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joseba irazoki
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The subdued crying of a small child resonating within the strings of Joseba Irazoki's guitars is accompanied by the dirgelike vocalizations of Joseba Irazoki himself, bringing - betwixt its mechanical manipulations and its electroacoustic hue - this guitar's impending sense of blue(s) even more to the fore. A highly versatile player within a variety of musical contexts, this instance finds him showcasing some unadulterated porch-chair fingerpickin', strings rife with the complexities of...
Topic: free folk
1,752
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Dec 27, 2007
12/07
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asher thal-nir
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'Studies for Autumn' was made in the Fall of 2006 and presents itself as one of Asher's more melodic works. It was created from basic workings involving piano, brass bells and field recordings of the seasonal fall winds blowing through the trees. Amidst the static interchanges, we find a prelude to winter long past and, perhaps, a time never forgotten; left somewhere frozen in the dust that memory leaves behind.
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Topic: no-fi
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Vibraphone anomaly intravenous evenings disperse pellucid ampersands Diaphanous polyphony peals lanced garden cuff squashed cerulean brocade koan bromide wrist demitasse insole chanson chantilly jeremiad tumescent cadaver ensign unremitting tautology hydrangea ossify benign cud acacia cordials febrile miscreant puffin column periwinkle bijou perjure goring edelweiss Pilgrim grapes glimpsed in the oaks of an incandescent fold. Striation trace seedlings freshly plastered hamlet. Baking charcoal...
Topic: electroacoustic improvisation
Source: www.con-v.org
1,666
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Feb 21, 2006
02/06
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rodrigues, sehnaoui, sehnaoui
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Ernesto Rodrigues has, of all players in the field of non-idiomatic improv, been the most manifest on the internet, with what is now already his third net-label release (also having his music out on ctrl-alt-canc and Stasisfield). Within this present constellation (together with Libanese avantists Christine & Sharif Sehnaoui) a musical universe is conjured which, lacking any figurative tendencies, can be characterised as a very hylic affair - dealing as it does with the 'lowest' portion of...
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Source: www.con-v.org
1,615
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Jul 24, 2007
07/07
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danny kreutzfeldt / jason corder
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Shelter's End is the moniker for a new collaboration of Danny Kreutzfeldt & Jason Corder. Danny Kreutzfeldt has already released numerous releases under his own name as well as under a plethora of aliases. Jason Corder as well has released under his own name, in addition to releasing under two further aliases. Comparing the oeuvre of the respective artists, the conclusion here seems to be that Danny Kreutzfeldt is in charge of the foundational work (in this case: sonically recreating the...
Topic: electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
1,615
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Mar 4, 2008
03/08
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garet, gonçalves, arno, owen, graydon
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low dynamic range: 1 min/ sound to 1 1/2 min/ no sound med. dynamic range: 1/2 min/ sound to 2 min/ no sound high dynamic range: 1/4 min/ sound to 3 min/ no sound players can switch dynamic ranges or stick to one as they please, as long as they follow the sound/no sound ratios. performed by: andré gonçalves (laptop) andy graydon (laptop) ben owen (laptop, objects) gill arno (laptop, objects, fm radio) richard garet (laptop). recorded on december the 10th, 2006 at fotòfono, brooklyn,...
Topics: microsound, electroacoustic, improvisation
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Sep 30, 2005
09/05
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asher
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The well known fact of the Inuits having access to more than 13 (or was it 30?) terms for 'snow' comes to mind on the apperception of this release. As the title already hints at, these tracks appear to represent a spectrum of blue both more wide and deep than ordinary english can communicate. A blue note resounding from the movement of the spheres, this is a buddhist blue - a deep-listening experience into melancholy; the sonic aura of the qualified nothingness at the essence of illumination....
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Topic: lowercase
Source: www.con-v.org
1,500
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Nov 30, 2005
11/05
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christopher mcfall
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This is the debut release by Kansas City based artist Christopher McFall " I strive to use computer-based techniques to manipulate/engineer recorded aspects of the macroscopic world into a microscopic mosaic. I feel that the 3 compositions comprising "A Starved-Strafe Lancing Machine," are of a minimal and microscopic nature that is the outcome of several years of experimentation with field recordings, whereby sounds are recorded and then often times engineered beyond...
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Topic: microsound
Source: www.con-v.org
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Apr 12, 2005
04/05
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Arturas Bumsteinas
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With the viscerality of the best pre-Velvet pump-organ dronings (or is it rather the sound of the ru-be, the reed instrument of the south-east asian Ma-peoples), energized with the wholly contemporary dynamics of a dj-set and sparkling with the post-neurotic kinetics of glitch (very much like a good champagne), no simple feelings will completely convey the affect that Arturas Bumsteinas' latest piece brings about (and i haven't even mentioned the title yet, casting it's elliptic semiotic shadow...
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Topic: contemporary chamber music
Source: www.con-v.org
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Sep 9, 2005
09/05
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dave fyans
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Originally, "Blown" was created on a modular synthesizer, using basic sound gnerating and shaping components to build a complex and dense environment. The environments were then recorded to computer at 44kHz/16 Bit audio and then transferred to an ageing Akai M-8, quarter inch analogue tape machine. Due to both the age and general disrepair of the tapes and the equipment, the audio has been coloured and treated by the decaying magnetic filaments of the tape and the machines valve...
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Topic: drone
Source: www.con-v.org
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Jul 11, 2005
07/05
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Eric Bollman
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Whatever echoes fibrillate in the undulations of our neuronal fields? Memory faces up to itself in this one question: how did memory bring us here? Memory, the forgotten one - under the sway of the scythe of bliss memory flexes over in synaptic delusion to the experience of senselessness that only audition can bestow. It comes as the gift of angels to listen to this world while immersed in such oblivion. Without recall of what vistas we have passed, we are awakened in a dream so far off...
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Topics: Microsound, Ambient, Electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
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Jun 23, 2009
06/09
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simon whetham
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...a rushed visit to Thailand to visit friends while they live in Bangkok led me to visit a small Mon village on the River Kwai, where some of the dwellings are built on metal pontoons which float on the river. The constant movement is both lulling and unsettling. I also spent some time on the remote island of Ko Kradan, off the South West coast of the mainland, which is still recovering from damage caused by the tsunami. A small jungle surrounded by golden beaches, it could be seen as...
Topic: field recordings
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May 9, 2008
05/08
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jeph jerman
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raw material performed by: greg davis (laptop, elephant bells, singing bowl, shortwave, gongs), lawrence english (laptop, shortwave, piano), jeph jerman (contact mic and amp, cymbal, baby monitor). recorded at: COCA, cairns australia, public art gallery, dunedin new zealand and the physics room, christchurch new zealand. re-imagined by jerman at estudio sonor, summer 2007. this soundwork began as an experiment in manipulating sound files. while it's true that digital technology allows us to...
Topic: electroacoustic
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Jun 14, 2011
06/11
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[cnv68]
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composed, produced and arranged by Lee Noyes and J.C. Combs Lee Noyes: percussion/prepared-piano/electronics/processing J.C. Combs: processes/electronics/piano recorded in Dunedin NZ and Seattle WA between Nov 2009 and March 2010. Mastered by Lee Noyes http://www.leenoyes.com/ http://www.jccombs.com/
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Topic: electroacoustic
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This piece was developed as a result of a series of interviews published by Binaural Media. These texts examined how various practitioners contextualised their work with environmental sound. Mark McLaren (co-curator of the excellent Sijis label and regular collaborator on Resonance FM) decided to test out some of the many ideas and questions that were generated during discussions with Marc Behrens, Yannick Dauby, Derek Holzer, Francisco Lopez, Chris Watson and Julian Weaver. 'More Than...
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Topics: concrete music, phonography, electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
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christine sehnaoui: alto sax dragos tara: doublebass, radio d'incise: laptop, objects, cymbals recorded live at "Atelier Tampom", Paris, 28.11.09. thanks to Marc Fèvre. Dragos Tara and d'incise are two higly active improvisors from the french-speaking part of switzerland. Dragos has a strong background as composer for instruments and electronics, he takes part of the Rue du Nord collective that organises many concerts and an annual festival in Lausanne. d'incise works in the...
Topic: free improvisation
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Nov 9, 2011
11/11
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cnv72]
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originally recorded in september 2008 in brooklyn ny. two hour long room recordings were made on different dates. the events captured in the room recordings were not edited and contain intentional though sproadic actions. the recordings went through 8 tracks of post production consisting of acoustic guitar and recorded events that happened on a daily basis, that defined the room, the location and my general activities. some examples are a slide projector, a piano board, neighbors in the...
Topic: minimalism, field recordings
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Feb 24, 2010
02/10
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coeval
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It is snowing. Water is trinkling. Crickets are chirruping. It is freezing. Winter is here, in some outer space. But the ambiance is widely removed from that. Not some distant, exotic countryside - a more quixotic nature burrows its roots into strata of warm-blooded experience. There is a distance, to be sure. A length measured in paradisiacal strata. A width measured in lengths of vibrational extensions of neurological tendrils into the vast reaches of an inner sanctuary. A depth measured in...
Topic: electroacoustic
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Oct 15, 2007
10/07
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michael trommer
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I've basically contact mic'd the upstairs bedrooms and various parts of the house, including various appliances (ones that run day-round) and windows/backyard (for outdoor sounds). the idea was to do a live, real-time mix, processing the sounds of the sleeping family/house, and gradually lifting off...slowly separating to outdoor sounds, then to local radio sounds, longwave...mediumwave...shortwave....then finally to a live radiotelescope feed. the idea is this gradual takeoff from a sleeping...
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Topics: microsound, field recordings
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Sep 1, 2011
09/11
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[cnv70]
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"Memoria fragmentada" was made by putting together many short fragments from field recordings captured in Cundinamarca (Colombia) during the first semester of 2010 in locations such as factories and different sites in the country side. Two events can only happen simultaneously in our memory. Thanks to Miguel Tolosa, Lina Velandia, Juan José Calarco, Pedro Leitâo, James McDougall, family and friends.
Topic: field recordings
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Jul 22, 2014
07/14
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www.con-v.org
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'Emergent Forms' is composed entirely of recorded electronic signals, which were processed to varying degrees, edited and arranged. My work on this piece started when I bought a JrF induction coil pickup, which can record electronic signals. I had no idea what the electronic signals would sound like, so I started experimenting with recording the sounds of the electronic objects around me, such as computers, microwaves, fridges, lights, phones, and many others. I then began the process of...
Topics: drone, field recordings, electroacoustic, field recordings
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Oct 27, 2005
10/05
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mattin
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London based Basque feedbacker Mattin has gained an excellent reputation as improviser in the last few years, performing regulary with well-known reductionists as Mark Wastell and Radu Malfatti and veterans as Eddie Prevost (AMM) on their project Sakada. "Abuse Divisons" is a unique track, a composition finished a week ago in Vienna; again, Mattin resembles the approach of the more radical electroacoustic improvisers just working with the endless dicotomy noise-silence. Special thanks...
Topic: digital noise
Source: www.con-v.org
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Feb 24, 2011
02/11
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James Wyness
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… for four hand-made (e)bowed zithers tuned to the Eikosany, a 20-tone just intonation structure devised by American theorist Erv Wilson. The four parts were recorded individually, then the work was assembled digitally according to a conceptual score, most unlike a conventional musical score An offset digitally reversed version of the original created a retrograde canon, a device favoured by early choral composers. Apart from that no digital effects or processes were necessary - what the...
Topic: drone
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Jan 25, 2012
01/12
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[cnv73]
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la moindre des choses 01 vers d'autres rives 02 la forme du monde 03 la moindre des choses bruno duplant & philo lenglet : sinewave, stringed instruments, ebow, objects, contact microphone, percussion, honeytone. recorded september 2011 at 'the bathroon' in waziers, france. ________________________________ rattle chicken, bone and stone on the face of the unknown found there, without believing (but who is?). that's why at first, one, then two, pair of light, made as above, is like that....
Topic: microsound-drone
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Oct 15, 2015
10/15
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www.con-v.org
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Yesterday I used a radio for the first time. This was an agreeable way, I found, to be convinced that entertainment is available. You hear something that is far away, and the people producing these audible sounds are speaking, as it were, to everyone — in other words they are completely ignorant as to the number and characteristics of their listeners. Among other things, I heard the sports results from Berlin. The person announcing them to me had not an inkling of my listenership or even my...
Topics: microsund, lowercase
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FF: contact mics, objects and electroacoustic devices. LB: contact mics, objects and electroacoustic devices. Recorded live on May 5th 2010 at Niu, Barcelona. more info: www.lalibarriere.net www.ferranfages.net Novosibirsk is the first release of Ferran Fages and Lali Barrière's duo, active since 2009. Novosibirsk was recorded live on May 5th 2010 at Niu, Barcelona. Both, Ferran and Lali, use similar devices, some of them made by themselves. Lali's sound is more focused in amplifying textures...
Topic: electroacoustic improvisation
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'Catching Fire' - brand new work by Lars Lundehave Hansen, the mastermind behind Danish renowned drone-act Wäldchengarten "Quite frankly, and I tell you this without any disdain for our future relations (should we come to have any), things have been going wrong for so long that I can't even begin to point out the "whens" and "wheres". Neither will I bore you with the specifics. But as I was - ready to engage - this fleeting glimpse of the future struck me like a...
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Topic: electroacoustic
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Apr 27, 2006
04/06
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cheapmachines
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"Latitude" - freedom from normal restraints in conduct; scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction. A linear progression through processed field recordings, sinewaves, amplified metal objects, white noise and feedback. Composed and recorded late 2005, final mix/edit early 2006 by Phil Julian.
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Topic: noise
Source: www.con-v.org
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Dec 15, 2005
12/05
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russell - prevost - mattin
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Conv is proud to present this electroacustic live session (london, summer 2004) by these three well-known gentlemen of the free improvisation: Bruce Russell, Eddie Prevost and Mattin, three different generations in an unique event. Together this threesome of post-materialist thinkers compose a sinewy orchestra-piece of skin, bones, creaking seats, sharpened fingernails & sharpened nerves. Investigating and penetrating their materials by means of cutting, bowing, scraping, raking, breaking,...
Topics: free improvisation, electroacoustic
Source: www.con-v.org
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Mar 16, 2010
03/10
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juan jose calarco
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"By recordings of devices and their mechanical sighs, isolating some tiny elemental events, dynamic phases & recurrences, Juan José Calarco gradually weaves a complex and bewitching topography, as if suddenly one could touch the night in motion, and perceive all the tones even from the inert things... This is just a study of subtle transitions, contrasts, exsudations, and a reassemblage of stunning strength..." [ Daniel Crokaert ]
Topic: field recordings
Source: www.con-v.org
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Nov 5, 2004
11/04
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Heribert Friedl
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CONVERGE, the title of Heribert Friedl's latest composition serves perfectly to underline the artist's conceptual approach to music. Distinct, fragile sounds, at times crumbling, at times rustling and droning, all move towards the same point within an organic micro-audio space. Friedl's understanding of sculpturing material in space is strongly reflected in his treatment of sounds. The quality of each sound, like the delicate sound of metal grinding or the subtle rustling of leafs, is shaped...
Topic: Microsound
Source: www.con-v.org
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Oct 1, 2007
10/07
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Origami Boe
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As a long time supporter of Einstürzende Neubauten, their democratic turn of the last few years is not only amusing - but also creates as a link between artists of such stature and the various other sub-networks of musicians and artists who have been working 'out in the open' for years. So as I started out this game of hunting down supporter act slots, i also started to plan for something special, if i should be so lucky. The strangest thing was that i was supposed to be on tour with colleague...
Topic: electroacoustic
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Jul 14, 2011
07/11
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D.O.R.
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BLINDSIGHT is the debut album from electroacoustic improvisors Jamie Drouin, Lance Austin Olsen, and Mathieu Ruhlmann, working under the acronym D.O.R. BLINDSIGHT documents the first meeting between the three artists at Drouin’s home, revealing both the natural synergy between their individual palettes, as well as the intuitive adeptness of these established artists. BLINDSIGHT refers to the phenomenon where a person with perceptual blindness is able to detect certain movements or stimuli, a...
Topic: electroacoustic, improvisation
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Jun 20, 2012
06/12
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Wade Matthews
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This piece is a brief improvisation recorded directly to two-track stereo. It was made using my customary dual-laptop setup, which allows me real-time control of digital synthesis, granular resynthesis and field recordings. The two field recordings used here were made in Aragon, Spain, in July, 2011. As I improvised this piece, I chose my materials for purely sonic reasons. They seemed to offset each other well and were fun to explore. I had no narrative program in mind and no other goal than...
Topic: electroacoustic improvisation
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recorded 5th february 2010, the cella venue, sanctuary cafe, hove, brighton, uk. knowing paul and his work only over the space of a year, i invited him to perform at an event i organised at the sanctuary cafe, hove, brighton, as part of the project 'active crossover'. i decided we should play as a duo, using the format of the events where one artist plays a short solo set, then is joined by the second artist for a short collaboration. the first artist then leaves the second to continue playing...
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Jan 12, 2010
01/10
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terje paulsen
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recorded @ terje's home [sound atelier] january - february 2009. track 1. german presence. soundsources: bowed, transistor radio and picked cymbal. bowed, e-bowed and picked three stringed acoustic guitar. both instruments are contactmik'ed. recorded and edited in audacity. track 2. a posteriori. soundsources: a broken record player from the 1960's. a handpicked cone. both objects recorded into a zoom handy h4 recorder and edited in audacity. terje paulsen mainly use found objects and cheap /...
Topic: electroacoustic
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Jan 4, 2015
01/15
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www.con-v.org
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Kenneth Kirschner - piano
Recorded on Block Island, RI, USA, 2011
Topic: contemporary
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Bio Federico Monti (1973, Argentina) sound and audio-visual artist , based in Barcelona works with low frequencies, field recording , digital experimentation with sounds marked by musical ambience and experimentation. His works has been published by Homophoni and Koyuki among others. polen II composed, performed, and produced by Federico Monti recorded in Barcelona 2007
Topic: microsound
